Computers and Writing 2015 (Menomenie, WI)

The Computers and Writing 2015 conference convened in Menomenie, Wisconsin, from May 28 - 31. I was there and tweeted A LOT. Here are all my notes:

• Keynote #1: Cheryl Ball, "Inventing Publishing, or How C&W Rules the World"
  
  
• #A7: Poblete (that's me), Sills, and Bost, "Professional Development and Support"
  
  1. Transformative Composition and Performativity: Digital Scholarly Work as Academic Fanfiction, Poblete
     
  2. New Media Assessment as Disciplinary Sensemaking: The Retrospective Recognition of Alternate Academic Work, Sills
     
  3. Intervening in the Master Course Philosophy, Bost
     
  
  
• #B9: Beck, Blair, Grohowski, "Empowering and Sustaining Peer Mentoring: An Interactive Workshop Panel for Graduate Students and Faculty"
  
  
• Keynote #2: Kelly McCollough, "The Author and Advancing Technology"
  
  
• #C7: Kerber, Comer, Chen, Jacob, "Social Media"
  
  1. ReTweets for Whales: The Role of Twitter in the #Blackfish Phenomenon, Comer
     
  2. Tweeting the Discipline: Knowledge Construction in Digital Spheres and Academic Conferences, Chen
     
  3. Entanglements of Literacy: Twitter, King Lear, and Graduate Composition, Jacob
     
  [Unfortunately, I'm not finding Kerber's title on the website.]
  
  
• #D2: Davidson, Jerz, Tunningley, "The Machine"
  
  1. The Terminator Agonistes: Cyborgs in the Popular Imagination, Davidson
     
  2. "Computer." (Chug-chug-chug) "Working." Futures of Text, as Predicted by Star Trek, Rossum's Robots, and Gadget Salesmen, Jerz
     
  3. From Word to Image: Avatars and the Limits of Identity Creation in Digital Composition, Tunningley
     
  
  
• #E1: Salvo, Sanchez, Strantz, Poblete (that's me), "Presumed Ubiquity & Tangible Networks: The Materiality of TechnoRhetorical Work"
  
  
• #G9: Jackson, Simpkins, Lunsford, Purdy, Jones, "Ethics"
  
  1. Circulating Rhetorics: Delivery and Mediation in Cryptocurrency Networks, Jackson
     
  2. The Rhetorical Possibilities of Trigger Warnings, Simpkins
     
  3. IP Stories in Writing Studies: An Intervention Against Censors, Spurious Take-Down Notices, Outrageous Publication Fees, and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property, Lunsford & Purdy
     
  4. Welcome to my parlor: Exploring ethos as a dwelling place in the case of Anonymous hacktivism, Jones
     
  
  
• Keynote #3: Meg Noodin, "Wenweni: Take Care"
  
  
• #H2: Tripp, Tham, Friend, Butler, "Pedagogy and Networking"
  
  1. Negotiating Networked Learning in the Era of Literacies, Tham
     
  2. The Missing Link: Interventions for Enhancing Traditional Student Composition, Friend
     
  3. Digital/Visual Literacies and Multimodal Strategies in the Writing Classroom, Butler
     
  [Unfortunately, I'm not finding Tripp's title on the website.]
  
  
• #I4: Dadas, Roback, "Social Media and Ethics"
  
  1. Hashtag Activism as Intervention: The Promise and Risk of “Attention”, Dadas
     
  2. "Should I say that?": Venting, Repercussions, and Self-censorship on Social Media", Roback
     
  
  
• #J2: Head, Carpenter, Apostel, Selfe, Apostel, "Sustainable Techno-Literacies: In(ter)ventions in Space Design"
  
  
• #L7: Liddle, Gerding, Grant, "Reveling in Complexity: Synthesis, Investigation, and Curation in Multimedia Composition Pedagogy"
  

I believe there were one or two sessions after this one, but I'd pledged to drive a friend to the airport, so that was the last for me! I'm already looking forward to next year.